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=Annaaa Colllll=

Annaaa Colllll is a poet and an artist. She finds inspiration in many places, especially in the work and writing of Michail Bakhtin, Joseph Bueys, and Adrienne Rich. Her subjects include hot pursuits—dreams, nonviolence, sex, social justice—plus cooler, more cerebral pursuits like ekphrasis. Both her poetry and her art involve large doses of irony, parody, and carnivalesque.

As an artist, for the past several years her practice has consisted of socially engaged art, most recently Punks in the Sanctuary/Free Pussy Riot. One characteristic of her performance work is a politic that is easy to spot, leading to engagement that can be comforting or confrontational depending on what the audience brings to the piece—an aspect of art that is heightened within a social practice.

Currently Annaaa is working on a performance involving Picasso and video based on her poetry. Below are descriptions of some of her work.

You Want to be a Peace Dove
Over a month, people created doves for peace, which Annaaa Colllll photographed and posted during evening performances. 130 images. Shadow puppet theater, backdrop by Deborah Collins, photography.

Artomatic, Crystal City, VA, 2008

Peace Kiss
Annaaa Colllll performed PeaceKiss multiple times. It follows my practice of inviting anyone to make art and become part of the I have staged this project (set up an installation and proposition passersby to become surrogates for warring countries by choosing a placard listing the name of a country and then by kissing another “country” in the horrific predicament (war)) over a few hours, over a weekend, and off and on over a month. Photos are printed and posted as taken. Once the photos begin to accumulate (I have posted up to 250 photos) the piece becomes less sideshow and more mystical.

Multiple performances and sites, 2006 - 2010

Poetry
DC Readings: The Black Cat, Miller Cabin Poetry Series, Café Muse, Artomatic, Iota Café

Poetry: Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, and other literary periodicals 1995 - 2002.

Other Publications
Interview: Andras Simonyi, former Hungarian Ambassador to the US, published in Rock and Roll and Nationalism: A Multinational Perspective, 2005

Co-editor: Rock and Roll and Nationalism: A Multinational Perspective (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005)

Co-editor: Female Quixotism (Oxford University Press, 1992), academic issue of the first known American novel by a woman, Tabatha Gilman Tenney